Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum…

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will…

— Jeremy Grantham

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

— Masanobu Fukuoka

“modern agriculture has thoroughly separated the agri from the culture. They’ve killed the meaning of the word—bifurcated it, completely, in just the last thirty…

— Dan Barber

“All of our uncertainties about nutrition should not obscure the plain fact that the chronic diseases that now kill most of us can be…

— Michael Pollan

The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art…

— Tristram Stuart

To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough…

— Henry A. Wallace

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving…

— Bill Gates

In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are…

— Ike Skelton

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a…

— Wendell Berry

“Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.”

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been…

— Fred Hoyle

Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago),…

— Matthew Simmons

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you…

— Dick Gregory

I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two…

— Noam Chomsky